There followed the meager news dispatches, reporting the signals
exchanged at Harbor Grace, the speaking of the plane by the Majestic. It
was pointed out that, unless disaster had overtaken the adventurers,
they should have appeared over the British Isles early in the present
day.
Ray smiled grimly and turned to the other columns.
There it was, the most important story in the sheet, outside the flying
yarn, which really wasn’t a story at all.
The dispatch from New York ran: